A little Japanese, every day
Fumori brings short lessons, spaced-repetition reviews and a Japanese reader together in one quiet study space. Learn it, recall it, then find it in something you read.
Fumori in fifty seconds. Every screen is the real app.
How it works
Three small steps that feed each other. What you learn comes back in reviews, and what you review turns up again in the sentences you read.
01 Learn it.
Start with kana, or tell Fumori which scripts you already know. Set a gentle daily limit and meet kana, vocabulary, sentence patterns, radicals and kanji in an order where each step builds on the one before.
覚える, oboeru · to learn, to memorise
02 Recall it.
Type your answers in Japanese, or in romaji with a live kana preview. Reviews adapt to how you answer, and recognising, producing and listening are each scheduled separately, so practice goes where it helps.
思い出す, omoidasu · to recall
03 Find it in something you read.
Read short original passages written for learners, with furigana where you want it. Tap any word for an on-device dictionary, choose the meaning that fits the sentence, then save it for later or add it to your reviews.
読む, yomu · to read
Reading
Read something that interests you. Fumori turns your own text into a passage you can study, with the same word help, notes and audio as its built-in readings.
Every import opens in an editable preview, so you can check recognition and reading order before you save. Passages hold up to 5,000 characters. Your own text isn’t translated automatically. Screenshot recognition requires iOS 16 or later.
What’s inside
Written for beginners and built to work without a connection, from your first hiragana to your first few hundred kanji.
Fumori covers beginner Japanese. It isn’t a complete course, and it doesn’t promise full coverage of any JLPT level.
Your study, on your device
Open the app and begin. There’s nothing to sign up for.
Lessons, dictionary lookups and review scheduling all run on your device.
Fumori shows no advertising and sends no usage data to us.
Export your progress to Files and restore it with a preview first. Nothing syncs behind your back.
Off by default. A local notification at a time you choose, skipped on days you’ve already studied.
Light, dark and high-contrast themes, with adjustable furigana, text size and playback pace.
Fumori Core
The free start is a genuinely useful one. When you want to go further, Fumori Core is a single purchase. There’s no subscription.
Always free
Free
A useful start.
Reviews, re-teaching and backups always stay available.
Fumori Core
US$19.99 one time
More room for your Japanese.
One payment. No subscription. Restore it any time with the same Apple Account.
Price shown for the US App Store; Apple shows the price for your country before you confirm. Core doesn’t include future separately sold content or online services.
Questions
More in Fumori support, or email senekudesign+support@gmail.com.
No. Fumori is free to download and to start. Fumori Core is a one-time in-app purchase of US$19.99 in the US, with no recurring subscription.
No. Start with kana from the beginning, or tell Fumori you already know hiragana, or both kana scripts, and begin from there.
Yes. Lessons, dictionary lookups and scheduling run on your device. Buying or restoring Core needs a connection to Apple’s store, and speech for words outside the bundled vocabulary uses a Japanese voice installed on your iPhone, which may need downloading once.
No. Your study stays on the device you use. Export a backup to Files to keep a copy or move to a new device; purchases restore separately through Apple.
No. Bundled kana and vocabulary audio is synthesised speech, with the normal and slow versions rendered separately. Other Reader words and sentences use your device’s Japanese voice. Treat it as a pronunciation aid rather than a pitch-accent reference.
Fumori covers beginner Japanese, including kana, everyday vocabulary, core grammar and 300 common kanji. It isn’t a JLPT course and doesn’t promise complete coverage of any level.
An iPhone or iPad. Requires iOS 15 or later. Reading Japanese from screenshots requires iOS 16 or later.
Free to download, free to start. Begin with kana, or wherever you are.
Download on the App Store